You think you used to see me around the forums, but now ... not so much?
Correctly observed; my retirement from non-book-related forum activity here is effective from June -08. No longer worth it.
You know who you are: Mission accomplished, big man. Hope you're real proud of yourself.

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I'm not sure where my very first pair of wings came from, but THANK YOU to whoever's behind it. :-) (Findabair, you were the #1 suspect ... !!)
I have no idea where my second pair of wings came from either (on March 7th, my mom's birthday :-) but again, THANK YOU, my mysterious benefactor ... !! :-)
My third pair of wings appeared mysteriously on May 14th. Thank you, mystery winger!!! :-)
Surprise - wings again on November 16th!! Thank you, whoever you are!! :-)
March 2nd: I've got wings again! OMG! :-D Thank you so much to someone out there ... !!! :-)
April 5th: Someone's wung me again!! Wow! Thank you so much!!
August 24th: I've been wung! Five minutes ago! :-o Someone must like me. :-) Thank you, whoever you are!!

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I'm 35 years old.
I live in Oslo, the capital of Norway, in a two-bedroom apartment decorated in an eclectic sort of IKEA meets flea market style.
I love chocolate.
I keep freshwater turtles. I have 2.0.0. Chinemys reevesii (Herman and Henrik) and 1.0.0. Trachemys scripta elegans (Raphael). The picture shows my littlest turtle Hadrian who became ill and died unexpectedly in late August -07. :-(
I like to travel and to see new places.
I like to play board games and card games.
I'm a big fan of Keanu Reeves, ElfQuest, The Phantom of the Opera, and the even more fantastic opera musical Which Witch.
My favorite author is Terry Pratchett. My favorite book is 'The Count of Monte Christo'.
I love movies. My all-time favorite movie is 'Gone with the Wind'.
I LOVE the Eurovision Song Contest ... !! This year's big night was Saturday, May 29th. It was extra fun because it was right here in Oslo. Yay for Düsseldorf 2011!!

Before BookCrossing, I usually read mostly fantasy and science fiction, along with some nonfiction - mostly WWII and turtle books in 2006, for some reason - but since becoming an active BCer, I've started reading a
much more varied selection of literature. :-)

Bookrings/rays I am hosting (all open unless otherwise noted; PM to join):
RAYS:
'Egalias døtre' by Gerd Brantenberg BOOK IS WITH AHAVA
'The Bomber' by Liza Marklund BOOK IS WITH LEMONITSA
'Katharina Blums tapte ære' by Heinrich Böll BOOK IS WITH LUNACIA
'Spares' by Michael Marshall Smith' BOOK IS WITH FINDABAIR
'Ligge i grønne enger' by Anne B Ragde (audio) BOOK IS WITH SEMLASSON
'Fatherland' by Robert Harris BOOK IS WITH ANADYOMENE
RINGS:
'Ute' by Natsuo Kirino BOOK IS WITH STAB92
'Som om jag inte vore där' av Slavenka Drakulic BOOK IS WITH FINDABAIR
'Brideshead Revisited' by Evelyn Waugh (audio!!) BOOK IS WITH LUNACIA
'The Fifth Child' by Doris Lessing BOOK IS WITH FTARAZU
'SHAM' by Steve Salerno BOOK IS WITH ILIOTROPIO
'Cold Comfort Farm' by Stella Gibbons BOOK IS WITH JANNIKE
SPIRALS:
Shark Attack!! 2 books + journal w/DVD 5/5 1ST BOOK IS ON THE ROAD!
RAY IT FORWARDS:
'Join Me' by Danny Wallace BOOK IS WITH LUNACIA
'Mystic River' by Dennis Lehane BOOK IS WITH SKYFIRE20
'Gör vad ni vill men döda henne inte' BOOK IS WITH BAMP
'When the Emperor Was Divine' by Julie Otsuka
RINGS I'M PLANNING:
'Half Gone' by Jeremy Leggett
Abigail Reynolds 5 book spiral (Pride & Prejudice sequels)
'Chasing Ghosts' by Paul Rieckhoff WILL BE OFFERED SOON ...
'1066 and All That' by Sellar & Yeatman TBR
'Vanunu. Hans kamp og kampen for ham' by Fredrik S Heffermehl TBR
RAYS I'M PLANNING:
'The Odyssey' by Homer TBR
'The Long Ships' by Frans G Bengtsson
CLOSED/COMPLETED RAYS & RINGS
'Silke' by Alessandro Baricco (6 readers! :-)
'Villskudd' by Gudmund Vindland (1 reader)

Bookrings/rays I am participating in (title of book + hosted by):
'The Gun Seller' (samulli) 12/16 BOOK IS READ
'Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (shpriz1) 9/9 AM 10TH IN LINE FOR THIS BOOK
'How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World' (miketrollstigen) NOT SURE WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THIS BOOK ...
Various Jane Austen sequels (ktwalker) AM 3RD IN SPIRAL. 6TH BOOK IS READ
'Freakonomics' (laura0141) 12/14 BOOK IS 'READ'
'The Kite Runner' (deepdowne) AM NEXT IN LINE BUT RING SEEMS STALLED ...
'Mansfield Revisited' (AgnesXNitt) AM NEXT IN LINE FOR THIS BOOK
'At Swim, Two Boys' (ealasaidmae) THINKING OF SKIPPING ...
'Now All We Need Is A Title' (rumble-bee) 9/9 AM 11TH IN LINE FOR THIS BOOK
'Lirael' (AliceF) 9/9 AM 4TH IN LINE FOR THIS BOOK
6 Tales of the City books (AliceF) AM 4TH? 5TH? IN THIS SPIRAL. 6TH BOOK IS READ
'Unusually Stupid Americans' (brewster13) 9/9 AM 9TH IN LINE FOR THIS BOOK
??? 'The Darwin Awards: Evolution in Action' (Bluestocking88)
'Pulp Friction' (Jare) 9/9 AM 4TH IN LINE FOR THIS BOOK
'The Accidental Office Lady' (SKingList) 9/9 AM 5TH IN LINE FOR THIS BOOK
'The Mayne Inheritance' (Hearth-Crafter) 9/9 AM 6TH IN LINE FOR THIS BOOK
'Enslaved by Ducks' (appaloosatb) 4/23 BOOK IS READ AND READY TO BE PASSED ON
'Vampyre. The Secret History of Lord Byron' (taniazed) 9/9 AM 6TH AND LAST ON THIS RING
'Talk to the Hand' (Ilios) 9/9 AM 8TH IN LINE FOR THIS BOOK
??? funsour's add-to journal (funsour)
'The Gift of Rain (Heaven-Ali) 2/20 BOOK IS READ
'History Without the Boring Bits' (taniazed)
'Giving. How Each of Us Can Change the World' - audio (MicheleReads) 12/9 BOOK IS 'READ'
'The Blue-Eyed Salaryman' (SKingList)
'Prairie Springs' (LRWilliamson) 7/27 BOOK IS READ AND READY TO BE PASSED ON
'Self-Made Man' (RockBird) 7/27 BOOK IS READ AND READY TO RETURN HOME
'Letter to a Christian Nation' (flambard) 9/13 BOOK IS READ
'My Father's Keeper' (AmyMS88)
'Peony in Love' (pennydainty) I AM LAST ON THIS RAY
'Geek Love' (spaceystacey)
'The United States of Wal-Mart' (??) 1/30 BOOK IS READ
'Inkheart' (imawinn2)
'Grotesque' (MooMoo1977) 8/24 BOOK IS READ
'Night' - audio (FeistyPom2Love)www.bookcrossing.com/---/3969084

I co-manage an OBCZ here in Oslo -
OsloS-OBCZ. It's in a cafe in Oslo Central Station. Contributions are welcome! PM me anytime for further info.
I also manage a temporary zone -
SkeiveFilmerBCZ - which will be a week-long mass release at the Cinematheque in Oslo in June. (See box below.) Again, donations are welcome and PM anytime. :-)

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My birthday buddy for 2007 was crimson-tide from Australia. A v. good BookCrossing experience! :-)
My birthday buddy for 2008 was KiwiinEngland [currently] in Dublin.

All of my books listed as AVL are available for trade or maybe RABCKs at my discretion (ask nicely ... ;-) ... and I also have a
huge pile of books waiting to be registered. :-) I just can't stop buying books ... ! ;-)

My address is on RABCK.com. :-) But please PM before sending on any rings or rays.
I don't always get my PMs, so if you PM for my address or whatever and don't hear back in a few days, please try again!

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MY CHALLENGES AND RELEASE PROJECTS ...

Personal challenge 2008: to turn one new country on the map below red every month!May: One book wild released on my behalf in Lome, Togo.April:A wild release has travelled far and wide with its AnonymousFinder! :-)A contribution sent to BC Japan for
a book fair in May.One book wild released on my behalf in Dili, East Timor.March:RABCK sent to blackteiwaz in Costa Rica (mailed March 5th).
One book being wild released on my behalf in Vietnam.February:One book wild released on my behalf in Vilnius, Lithuania by a non-BCer friend.January:One book sent to KiwiinEngland in Ireland for release.Surprise RABCK to meexia in Singapore, sent in December, arrived in January.A bookring reached marko167 in Switzerland.One book wild released on my behalf in Tallinn, Estonia by my mother, Kari43.

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I've come up with a clever idea ... or at least an idea which I think is clever. (May not be the same thing, I'm aware of that.) I bought an apartment in December 2005 and moved in in February 2006. Outside my front door, on the wall beside it, there is a little
peg or hook, kind of thing, set into the concrete. Probably something the previous owners left behind that they used to hang a flowerpot from or something. I don't really remember from when I was there looking at it.

I've been wanting to use this for something myself, but haven't really been able to figure out what. Flowers are out - that is just so not me. I got a really cool fake traffic sign recently, 'Turtle Crossing', which I wanted to put there ... but since turtles
are illegal as pets in this country I don't really want to advertise that I have them, so I put that on the door to the living room instead.

I also love flea markets and normally buy more than I should whenever I go to one. (Which is why BookCrossing is so perfect, because now I can buy a gadzillion cheap books with a clear conscience ... ! :-D) This spring I picked up a bunch of ... miscellanea,
let's say ;-) at one of the flea markets I went to, some weird shelf things and the like. One of these is made out of some sort of wicker, it has two levels and a two-inch edging in the front so that things don't fall out of it. It has just enough room for
- wait for it - six paperback books. I had no real idea what to use it for when I bought it, but now of course I've realized that it was absolutely Meant to hang outside my front door full of books with a little home made poster about BookCrossing next to
it. And now it does. Kismet!? :-D

Unfortunately I live on the top floor so only two of my neighbors normally pass my door. But that's something, at least, and they do have guests occasionally. :-) And I have guests from time to time myself, of course, and when I do I will certainly encourage
them to take a look at the shelf and see if there's anything they're interested in. I actually considered a shelf inside the apartment, in the hall somewhere, where I could put BC books waiting to be released, and tell my visitors to take anything with them
that they wanted to read. But this way, outside the apartment, open to anyone passing by and outside my control, is much better - and much more in the spirit of BookCrossing. :-)